Outside the Lines: Too Much Beyoncé

all i see is a kid mucking around having fun. kids should be encouraged to be imaginative and be supported if they have an interest not analysed and vilified about it. who cares if he's gay or not at the age of seven, just enjoy childhood.

Both of my kids turned out straight. Not even bi-curious. And they heard plenty of Indigo Girls and Melissa Etheridge.

But good lord. There must be more important things to speculate on and worry about than this.

Finally, I have noticed that some kids seem to be sterotypically gay from an early age, but others who later become gay look and act like everyone else. I hope all parents allow and encourage their children to be themselves.

He's absolutely adorable.  Fabulous too.  He's having fun, like a little guy should.

Hetero parents everywhere, combined with an overwhelmingly hetero culture, AND cruelty to those who turned out gay, still resulted in a certain number of gay people (gazing into the mirror).  So good luck on rewiring anyone.

I tend to think that with an open (generally gay) family, one might be more free to be whoever one is.  So many of us tried straight before coming to terms with our sexuality, because of the family/cultural/internalized expectation that we should be straight. 

 Some interviews from last weekends Seattle Times, with adult children of gay parents at: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw03252007/ 

"Boys and their mess" - she'll do fine either way, huh?  Cracked me up.

I love that lil boy. He's so adorable!! I used to do what he did, watch music videos then try to get all the moves down. The only difference being our choice of bootylicious women. I chose J.Lo, lol.

I hate the criticisms; he's young and just having fun. If Beyonce saw this I'm sure she'd be touched =]  

Having read the comments on this video, I can't believe people are getting so worked up about it.

For goodness sake, he is a little boy, who cares how he dances.... someone wrote he should dance in a male way... get a grip. Why should there be a male or a female way of dancing. All this manly/womanly stuff just reinforces gender norms, which are social constructions anyway. People like that make me so angry... I think he's lovely.

So, i do not really see the co-relation here. I mean, if people are worried that gay parents would somehow influence the sexuality of their children, then why am i gay? both my parents are straight, my brother is straight....i am gay....so how did that happen?

People who come to that conclusion are not really thinking out of the box, are they?

Honestly? Some people should get a life. This is just the kind of "problem" that only someone with a ridiculous amount of free time would be worried about.

Some of the comments there are just so out of proportion that is sad.

Kids are bombed with all flavors of entertainment and informations there days, they pick and choose, go for what they like and forget the very existence of what they don't care for. If Beyonce is the pick, it isn't for lack of "better" options. It's simply an option.

It may or may not be pertinent to the kid's sexual orientation.

Now if straight guys can't dance or sing like that, slander free, should they wish to then we have a problem. If kids can't be gay without someone or something being "blamed" for it, then we've got a problem.

And seriously, if that many people have that kind of time in their hands while I'm killing work to be here, that's a problem too! =D

Energize me with a simple smile

Open up your mind

Energize me, fire up this flame

That's burning forever

I think that even mentioning the negative responses to this video by uptight individuals, gives unnecessary attention to them. Even if they remain anonymous (Ann Coulture didn't remain anonymous, so surely someone surfing the web can read this, agree with her using the "F" bomb and Voila!) Umm, No I don't beleve in free (hate) speech sorry.

I also do not believe in extending an olive branch to individuals who work against the LGBT "community".

Besides this child may be mimicking or emulating Beyonce, but that doesn't mean that he will grow up to be an entertainer or even work in show biz.  Therefore in your attempts to be supportive of his behavior you automatically stereotyped a child and cubbyholed him.

the potenialities that remain for him to become a lawyer, surgeon, politician remain unrealized.

It s a great debat , an eternal debat , u can' t forced somenone to be like u want , even your child. Lot of us know what i mean, and as a gay personn your discours disturbs me, u know how is difficult to assume yourself and when your parents are with you and concerned by your life it s more easier.

Justin in ugly betty is the perfect example , he has got "le soutien" of his mum, his aunt and his grandfather, not of being a gay, but of being himself.

And this boy is just dancing , only dancing , he enjoys life , he loves this song  like i do, and i assure you i don't dance like him.Which mean i'm not a gay?? lol

Go figure I just wrote a lit review about all of this. Rest assured all, according to lots and lots and lots of physchologist us being homosexual has nothing to do with our kids turning out homosexual but you all knew that, ooo but did you know that Lesbians are more likely to let their kids play with either gender "appropriate" toys, and gay men are more likely to try and get their male children to play with "male" toys and female children to play with "girly" toys. I think ive been focusing on this waaaay to long!

First off...I gotta hand it to the child, he can dance!!!

Now to my main point. Why is his style of dancing considered to be a marker of what his sexual preferences are, more specifically, to be a marker of gayness?

What this boy does is transgress gender norms. He is expresses himself in a different way that society believes boys should do.

This doesn't men that he will later identify ever as gay, although it could be possible. Who knows? Only he can tell the world/ or choose not to in due time.

I'm not surprised at how people are viewing gender presentation and sexual preference as the same thing...although we need to understand them as two different things, although oftentimes entertangled.

A straight guy can be totally "flamboyant", and there are many lesbians and bi women who enjoy dressing in a "femme" way, however this doesn't mean they are who they feel they are.